Author: Rod

Apr 3 Easy

Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller Another day. Like the song says I am going to take it easy.


Apr 2 Potato Salad

Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently. Trisha Yearwood Ya don’t eat the grocery store potato salad and honey roasted peanuts at the same meal. I am sure I have tried to warn myself before. Getting out of bed was rather … urgent. I survived that, fed the furry things, and made coffee….


Apr 1 Fooled

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. Mark Twain I won a gazillion dollars in the lottery.  Like I do every April Fools’ Day. I would say the snow was a surprise, but I would be lying. I walked outside to bring the…


Mar 31 Breathe

Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. Gustav Mahler I plan to just game today. After cats are fed, watered and loved. Big job. Oh, and I need to clean my room. I am having optical migraines, almost every day now. I…


Mar 30 They’re back

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. Aldo Leopold They’re back. I saw geese today. 2021 Apr 7. 2020 Apr 8, 2019 Apr 8. It is too early. Does it mean an early spring, maybe? Today I went to town, the…


Mar 29 Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. Walter Elliot My new power panel is mounted and powered up. I am working on my laptop, which is charging, and my tablet is charging. It has taken a long time to get here. A couple of years ago, I…


Mar 28 Wiring

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. Lewis Black The cold didn’t leave, but is tolerable. Enough for me to chop ice and snow for melt in my bathrobe and snow boots. No fire to melt on, just room temp. I have more freight at the post office,…


Mar 27 Ten

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz Ten. Ten is the temp that is colder than the sum of my blankets. I spent most of the night shivering. I woke with more than my daily allotment of pain. Joints hurt, muscles hurt and more….


Mar 26 Lumber

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Alexander Pope All hopes of an early spring temporarily forgotten in an evenings snow. I know it’s March there should be snow, we have had a few days of warm weather, with even warmer forecast for next week. Whatever is happening, for…


Mar 25 Waiting

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Paulo Coelho Made it to the village picked up my freight, all but one package that was missed by the current employees. Second time that happened, I will watch for three. More catfood arrived and my husband pillow. It came vaccuumed packed…